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Philip
Sidney : A Double Life
by Alan Stewart
Hardcover - 400 pages
St. Martin's Press; October 2001"This man, known as the "epitome of
Elizabethan chivalry"
and "quintessential Englishman," appears here as disap-
pointingly less than his reputation. The subtitular "double
life" alludes to the fact that the handsome, talented, well-
born Sir Philip was belittled and neglected in England by
status-sensitive, conspiracy-minded Queen Elizabeth,
while on the continent his poetry and his statesmanship
earned him acclaim.... Stewart furnishes a litany of
Sidney's
frustrations (his connections to noble families under royal
suspicion injured his prospects), and examines his literary
projects, which, but for the convoluted pastoral epic Arcadia,
the lofty Defense of Poesie and the sonnet sequence Astrophil
and Stella, remained unfinished. In Stewart's demythologized
study, Sidney is the prisoner of his birthright. "
—Publishers WeeklyOrder
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Biographical

The
Making of Sir Philip Sidney
by Edward Berry
Published by University of Toronto Press, 1998"Explores how Sidney 'made' or
created himself as
a poet by 'making' representations of himself in the
roles of some of his most literary creations: Philisides,
Astrophil, and the intrusive persona of A Defence of
Poetry. Focusing on the significance of these and other
self-representations throughout Sidney's career, Berry
combines biography, social history, and literary criticism
to achieve a carefully balanced portrayal of the poet's life
and work." —Amazon.comOrder
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The
Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
(Penguin English Library)
by Sir Philip Sidney, Maurice Evans (Editor)
Paperback
Published by Viking Pr, Dec 1, 1977
"Based on the 1593 Arcadia, this edition amends
the text in the light of the 1590 New Arcadia and
the 1598 Folio and checked against Feuillerat's
collation of later editions." --Sidney NewsletterOrder
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The
Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
(The Old Arcadia)
by Philip Sidney, Katherine Duncan-Jones (Editor)
Paperback
Oxford Univ Pr; January 1999
"Splendid and affordable, with scholarly glossary and
explanatory notes."
—Susanne Collier, California State University, Northridge.Order
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Sir
Philip Sidney : An Annotated Bibliography
of Texts and Criticism (1554-1984)
by Donald V. Stump, Jerome S. Dees, C. Stuart Hunter
Hardcover
Published by G K Hall, April 1, 1994
"This annotated bibliography is a comprehensive
listing of printed material about Sidney from 1554 to
1984, including not only editions of his works and
scholarship, but also literary works written about
Sidney or under his dominant influence. Of the
2,841 items, some 1,500 have never before been
listed. Includes name, author, and subject indexes."--Book News, Inc.Order
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Gender
and Authorship in the Sidney Circle
by Mary Ellen Lamb
Paperback - 297 pages
Univ of Wisconsin Pr; February 1991"This study demonstrates the extent
to which reading and
writing were gendered acts in 16th- and early 17th-century
England. Renaissance gender ideology did not prevent
women from writing altogether, but it affected all writing by
creating different standards of acceptability for female writers
than for their male counterparts. Lamb explores the effect of
this gendered ideology of authors in a famous Renaissance
family - the Sidneys: Sir Philip Sidney, his sister, the Countess
of Pembroke, and his niece, Mary Wroth, two notable and
productive women authors of the time. Unlike other works
which analyze gender only in terms of women's writing,
Mary Lamb explores gender as a determining force in the
works of both men and women of the Sidney circle. "
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The
Exemplary Sidney and the Elizabethan Sonneteer
by Lisa M. Klein
Hardcover
Univ of Delaware Pr; May 1998
"[C]ontends that Greville, Daniel, and Spenser, while
working in conventional forms and in the bright shadow
of Sidney, nonetheless demonstrate the authority of
the individual poet to pressure conventional forms and
to refashion Sidney's heroic image." —The Publisher.

Labyrinth
of Desire : Invention and Culture
in the Work of Sir Philip Sidney
by William Craft
Hardcover
Univ of Delaware Pr, September 1994
"Craft argues that Sir Philip Sidney's
work reveals the limits of Tudor cultural
codes invented to manage political and
erotic experience, even as that work leads
readers to see invention as a necessary
and constant human act." —The Publisher.

Sir
Philip Sidney and Arcadia
by Joan Rees
Hardcover
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, June 1991
"Rees, a Fellow of the (British) Royal Society of Literature,
sets out the case for a rereading of Sidney's (1554-1586)
prose romance that will stress the subtlety, humor, and
charity that inform Arcadia and recognize the extraordinary
originality of conception and skill of execution."
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The
Sound of Virtue : Philip Sidney's
Arcadia and Elizabethan Politics
by Blair Worden
Hardcover
Published by Yale Univ Pr, February 1997
"Worden has produced an intensive and
persuasive study. . . . Discussions of stoicism,
Machiavelli, Castiglione, and Tacitus are
particularly enlightening. A long analysis of
Philisides's fable nicely illustrates a number
of major political themes. Not an easy read,
but essential to an understanding of Sidney's
work. Bibliography and index are very well
done." —J.R. Buchert - ChoiceOrder
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